Fastening device



l. WEI'NRICH. FASTENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23l 192!- 1,413,082. Patented Apr. 1s, 1922.

ISIDOBE WEINRICH, OF BRGOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patmtd Apr. 1S,

applicati@ inea september 23,1921. serial no.` 502,595.

To @ZZ whom t may concern: .n

Be it known that I, Isinonn lnrNRoI-I, a resident of Brooklyn, KingsCounty, State of New York, and a citizen of Russia, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in fastening devices such as areused in lieu of buttons for fastening gloves or other articles of wear.My improved fastener can be used in any case to secure two memberstogether. One of the objects of the inventio-n is to provide aninexpensive fastener that cannot be pulled apart after having beenconnected. To connect the parts of my fastener together or to separatesame, a rotary movement upon the part of one of the elements isnecessary; hence the fastener memberscannot be connected by pressurealone or separated by pulling.

I will now proceed to describe my inven tion in detail, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing,.wherein: v

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of one member of my fastener, illustrated asattached to one of a pair of elements to be secured together, saidelement being also shown in section;

Fig. 2 is a similar' view of the other member of the fastener;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating the fastener members connected;and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the member illustrated in Fig. 1.

My improved fastener is made up oftwo cooperating members arranged toengage one with the other, one member being indicated generally 5 inFig. 1, and the other by 6 in Fig. 2. Both member' 5 and member 6 willbe secured, preferably permanently secured, to their respectiveelements, indicated by 7 and 8. The elements 7 and 8-may be any twoparts which are to be fastened together, such for instance as the aps ofa glove, endsof a belt, or any other two elements requiring securementvone to the other. The fastener member 5 is made up of a socketedthimble 9, the socket being in dicated by 10 and isthreaded as at 11,said thimble carrying an annular flange 12. rThe thimble 9 will bepassed through its element 7 and will engage a head member 13. Both theflange 12 and head 13 will bear. upon washers, said washers beingindicated by l14: and 15. The member 5 will not be rigidly secured toits elements 7, but. willv be rotatable so that the threaded socket 11can be caused toV engage Athe correspondingly threaded stud 16 of thefastener member The elements 9' and 13, which' go to make up fastenermember 5, will be pressed together, the socketed thimble 9 having atight fit with the bore 17 of the head 13. To assemble the fastenermember 5, the thimble 9 will be passed through an opening formed in itselement 7, the washer 15 having been applied to the thimble, after whichthe head 13 will be pressed onto the thimble causing the head andthimble to be securely connected. The head willv not be forced againstits washer; hence, the said memberL 5, as a whole, can be rotated byturning head 13. The fastener member 6 consists of the hereinbeforereferred to threaded stud 16,which is'carried by a plate 18, said studhaving a threaded Vsocket 19 to be engaged by a threaded nipple 20,carried by a plate 21. The nipple 2O will be passed through the element8 and caused to engage the threaded socket 19 in the stud 16. rTheelement 8 being clamped between the plates 18 and 21, the nipple 20 willbe screwed home; hence, the fastener member 6, as a whole, will besecurely fastened to its member 8, and will not rotate. To connectelements 7 and 8, it is but necessary to cause stud 16 to engage socket11, after which member 5 will be rotated until stud 16 is drawn wellinto said socket oruntil plate 18 and flange 12 are drawn firmly oneagainst the other, as indicated in Fig. 4. In order to disengage members5 and 6, it is necessary to rotate member 5 in the proper direction.

1t will vbe obvious that members 5 and 6 kcannot be pulled apart as canthe ordinary snap fastener. My improved fastener is not subject to asmuch wear as are snap fasteners, which, after continued use, fail tocatch. The parts of my improved fastener will last indefinitely. Y

Having described my invention, Vwhat 1 claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is y 1. A fastening device, a fastener member comprisinga thimble having a threaded socket, an annular flange carried by thethimble, a head carried by the thimble but spaced from said flangesufficiently for the interposition of an element to be fastened' and forthe rotation of said fastening member as a whole when applied to thesaid element, in combination with anthreaded stud having threadseXteriorly and interiorly` remesa ber as a Whole Vwhen. applied-tothesaidv element, in combination with a threadedstud having threadsy`exteriorly and interiorly thereof, the exterior threads being arrangedfto engage the threads in the fastener ine1n-A -ber first named, a platecarried thereby, a Y threaded nipple to engage the threads inthe socketof the stud, and a plate carried by the nipple, the element to besecured vt0 the element carrying the fastener member first named, beingclamped between the plates on said stud and saidnipple.

In testimony .whereof' hereunto affix my signature.

isiDoRE WEiNiaIei-i. Y

